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 :(  TRUSTEES  }  

Louis  Marshall,  President  Henry  M.  Toch,  Treasurer 

Ben  Altheimer  Otto  E.  Dryfoos 

Vice-President  Associate  Treasurer 

William  I.  Spiegelberg,  Secretary 

Henry  J.  Bernheim  Benjamin  Mordecai 

Davis  Brown  Samuel  M.  Newburger 

Philip  J.  Goodhart  Adolph  S.  Ochs 

Daniel  Guggenheim  Edward  Schafer 

Sydney  H.  Herman  Roger  W.  Straus 

Irving  Lehman  Ludwig  Vogelstein 

Arthur  Zinn 

RABBIS 

Hyman  G.  Enelow  Nathan  Krass  Samuel  Schulman 

Joseph  Silverman,  Rabbi  Emeritus  Simon  Cohen,  Assistant  Rahhi 

Simon  Schlager,  Cantor 
Charles  N.  Pollak,  Controller       Samuel  Berliner,  Assistant  Controller 

Building  Committee 
Benjamin  Mordecai,  Chairman 
Henry  J.  Bernheim  Samuel  M.  Newburger 

Davis  Brown  William  I.  Spiegelberg 

Philip  J  Goodhart  Henry  M.  Toch 

Sydney  H.  Herman  Ludwig  Vogelstein 

Myron  S.  Falk,  Consulting  Engineer 

Architects 

Robert  D.  Kohn        Charles  Butler       Clarence  S.  Stein 
Architects  Associated 

Bertram  Grosvenor  Goodhue  Associates 

Francis  L.  Mayers  O.  H.  Murray  Hardie  Phillip 

Consultants 

Eugene  W.  Stern,  Structural  Engineer 
Jaros  fe?  Baum,  Heating  and  Ventilation  Engineers 
Eadie,  Freund  fe?  Campbell,  Electrical  Engineers 


Qhronicles  of  Temple  £manu-8l 


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PULPIT  IN  TEMPLE 


N  the  fourth  decade  of  the  nineteenth  century,  there  came  to  New 
York  City  a  number  of  German  Jews,  who  banded  themselves 
together  into  an  organization  which  they  called  "The  Cultus  Verein," 
or  "Culture  Society."  They  held  frequent  meetings  for  the  purpose  of 
intellectual  and  spiritual  advancement.  This  small  group,  about  38  in 
number,  decided  to  organize  themselves  into  a  Jewish  Congregation, 
and  on  the  sixth  day  of  April,  1845,  such  a  Congregation  was  duly 
formed,  and  named  "Emanu-El."  Arrangements  were  made  for  the 
holding  of  divine  services  in  a  room  in  a  private  dwelling  house,  at  the 
corner  of  Grand  and  Clinton  Streets.  This  room  was  arranged  as  a 
synagogue.  The  front  seats  were  set  apart  for  the  use  of  men,  and 
those  in  the  rear  for  the  use  of  women.  A  choir  was  organized  under 
the  leadership  of  Mr.  G.  N.  Cohn,  as  cantor.  Dr.  Leo  Merzbacher 
was  engaged  as  rabbi  and  lecturer.  Al?airs  of  the  Congregation  were 
managed  by  two  bodies,  one  called  directors  and  the  other  advisory 
board.  No  president  was  elected.  Each  director  acted  as  chairman  in 
turn  for  four  months.    Mr.  I.  Dittenhoeffer  was  the  first  chairman. 

On  November  16,  1845,  appears  the  first  mention  of  another  Con- 
gregation. It  is  stated  that  a  committee  from  Anshe  Chesed  was  received 
to  talk  over  matters  of  mutual  interest.  Anshe  Chesed  later  was  united 
with  Adas  Jeshurun  to  form  Temple  Beth-El,  which  recently  was 
amalgamated  with  Temple  Emanu-El. 

On  October  11,  1847,  the  directors  of  Temple  Emanu-El  proposed 
the  purchase  of  a  church  building  at  56  Chrystie  Street,  between  Hester 
Street  and  what  was  ther  called  Walker  Street,  now  known  as  Canal  Street.  At  the  general  meeting  of  the 
Congregation,  held  on  the  seventeenth  of  October,  1847,  the  Committee  on  Inspection  reported  that  the  building 
was  well  adapted  to  the  needs  of  the  Congregation  and  that  it  could  be  purchased  for  $12,000,  $600  to  be  paid 
at  the  signing  of  the  contract,  $5,400  by  the  first  of  January,  1848,  and  the  balance  remaining  on  mortgage  at 
6  per  cent. 

Mr.  Leopold  Eidlitz  was  engaged  as  architect,  to  draw  plans  for  the  purpose  of  making  such  alterations  as 
would  transform  the  church  edifice  into  a  synagogue.    An  organ  was  purchased  and  installed. 

On  the  eighteenth  of  October,  1848,  a  daily  elementary  school  was  formed  under  the  superintendence  of  Dr. 
Merzbacher.  This  school  was  given  up  in  1854,  and  in  place  thereof  a  religious  school  was  instituted — Saturday 
and  Sunday  being  set  aside  as  days  devoted  to  the  religious  instruction  of  the  children. 

On  the  twenty-third  and  twenty-fourth  of  July,  1852,  the  Reverend  Adolph 
Rubin  officiated  as  cantor  and  reader,  and  soon  thereafter  was  elected  to  succeed 
Mr.  Cohn,  who  left  the  Congregation  shortly  before  the  advent  of  his  successor. 

On  April  10,  1853,  Mr.  Abraham  Michelbacher  was  chosen  president  of 
the  Congregation. 

At  a  Trustees'  meeting  on  December  15,  1853,  it  was  reported  that  an 
agreement  had  been  made  with  Congregation  Beth  Israel  to  purchase  the 
Chrystie  Street  building  and  to  assume  possession  thereof  on  February  2,  1854. 

A  church  was  then  purchased  in  East  Twelfth  Street,  which  became  the 
new  home  of  Temple  Emanu-El. 

On  the  twenty-first  day  of  October,  1856,  "a  catastrophe  occurred  which 
deeply  shocked  all  the  members  of  the  Congregation  and  plunged  them  into 
indescribable  sorrow.  On  the  last  day  of  the  Feast  of  Tabernacles,  Dr.  Merz- 
bacher preached,  as  usual.  His  text  was  'The  Priestly  Benediction,'  with  which 
he  concluded  his  sermon.  On  his  way  home  from  the  Temple,  a  sudden  attack 
of  pulmonary  congestion  overcame  him.    He  fell  and  never  spoke  again." 

Dr.  Samuel  Adler,  of  Worms,  Germany,  was  called  to  succeed  Dr.  Merz- 
bacher. He  preached  his  inaugural  sermon  on  Sabbath  Hagadol,  the  Saturday 
before  Passover,  1857. 

After  an  eloquent  appeal  by  Dr.  Adlcr  on  the  Day  of  Atonement,  1864,  the 
Trustees  were  authorized  to  sell  the  Twelfth  Street  building  and  seek  new 
quarters. 

On  November  23,  1864,  Mr.  Abraham  Michelbacher,  the  first  president  of 
Temple  Emanu-El,  resigned  his  office,  and  Mr.  Lazarus  Rosenfeld  became 
acting  president. 

In  the  spring  of  1865,  a  resolution  to  purchase  the  corner  of  Forty-third 
Street  and  Fifth  Avenue  and  to  erect  thereon  a  Temple  building  was  unani- 
mously adopted.  Messrs.  Leopold  Eidlitz  and  Henry  Fernbach  were  chosen  as 
the  architects.    The  total  expenditure  was  not  to  exceed  a  half  million  dollars. 


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On  May  4,  1865,  Lewis  May  was  elected  president. 

On  October  30,  1866,  the  corner-stone  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  edifice  was  laid. 
In  February,  1867,  the  Twelfth  Street  building  was  sold  for  $35,000  to  Mishkan 
Israel  Congregation. 

In  1868,  Reverend  Doctor  James  K.  Gutheim,  of  New  Orleans,  was  chosen  as 
associate  rabbi,  and  in  May,  1872,  after  having  been  with  the  Congregation  four  years, 
was  urgently  requested  to  return  to  New  Orleans,  and  severed  his  connection  with 
Temple  Emanu-El. 

The  new  Temple  in  Fifth  Avenue  was  dedicated  on  September  11,  1868.  This 
highly  ornate  structure  is  a  fine  specimen  of  Saracenic  architecture,  built  of  brown 
and  yellow  sandstone.  Massive  columns,  spanned  by  Saracenic  arches,  support  the 
lofty  clerestory,  the  whole  being  elaborately  decorated  with  Moorish  traceries. 

In  May,  1873,  the  Reverend  Doctor  Gustav  Gottheil  was  called  from  Manchester, 
England,  to  the  pulpit  of  Temple  Emanu-El  as  coordinate  rabbi  with  Dr.  Adler,  who 
became  rabbi  emeritus  on  May  1,  1874.  Dr.  Gottheil  took  up  his  duties  in  the  fall 
of  1873. 

In  1879,  German  preaching  was  abolished.  From  the  founding  of  the  Congrega- 
tion until  the  election  of  Dr.  (iutheim  sermons  had  been  preached  in  German  and 
subsequently  in  German  and  in  I^nglish. 

On  January  16,  1888,  Dr.  Joseph  Silverman  was  called  from  Galveston,  Texas,  to 
become  assistant  rabbi  to  Dr.  Gottheil,  and  on  March  3,  1888,  was  inducted  into  office. 

In  18*^9,  Dr.  Gustav  Gottheil  became  rabbi  emeritus.  Dr.  Silverman  occupying 
the  pulpit  alone  until  May  8,  1906,  when  a  call  was  extended  to  Dr.  Judah  L.  Mag- 
nus, of  Temple  Israel,  Brooklyn.  Dr.  Magnus  resigned  from  Temple  Emanu-El  on 
October  1,  1910. 

On  June  9,  1891,  Dr.  Samuel  Adler  died  at  the  age  of  82. 

On  May  16,  1898,  Mr.  James  Seligman  was  elected  president  of  the  Congregation. 
On  March  7,  1904,  Mr.  Simon  Schlager  was  elected  cantor  of  the  Temple. 
On  March  4,  1912,  Dr.  H.  G.  Enelow,  of  Louisville,  Kentucky,  was  elected  as  coordinate  rabbi  to  share 
the  pulpit  of  Temple  Emanu-El  with  Dr.  Silverman. 

Mr.  Louis  Marshall  was  elected  president  of  the  Congregation  on  December  18,  1916. 
On  July  1,  1921,  Dr.  Silverman  was  made  rabbi  emeritus. 

On  April  4,  1923,  Dr.  Nathan  Krass,  of  Central  Synagogue,  New  York,  was  elected  rabbi  on  an  equality  with 
Dr.  Enelow.    Dr.  Krass  was  formally  inducted  on  Rosh  Hashonah  morning,  September  11,  1923. 

The  Temple  at  Forty-third  Street  and  Fifth  Avenue  was  sold  on 
December  31,  1925,  for  $6,500,000,  the  purchaser  giving  in  part  pay- 
ment ten  lots  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Sixty-fifth  Street  and  Fifth 
Avenue,  valued  at  $3,500,000.  Subsequently  75  feet  of  additional 
property  on  Sixty-fifth  Street,  cast  of  this  plot,  were  purchased  for 
$475,000. 

On  April  25,  1927,  a  special  meeting  of  the  Congregation  was  called, 
at  which  meeting  the  resolution  to  amalgamate  with  Temple  Beth-El 
was  adopted.  On  May  11,  1927,  a  similar  special  meeting  was  held  at 
Temple  Beth-El,  at  which  meeting  the  resolution  that  Temple  Emanu- 
El  and  Temple  Beth-El  be  amalgamated  was  adopted.  On  May  27, 
Supreme  Court  Justice  Gavegan  issued  an  order  granting  the  consoli- 
dation. The  united  congregation  is  to  be  known  as  "Congregation 
Emanu-EI  of  the  City  of  New  York." 

In  addition  to  the  Temple  building  in  Sixty-fifth  Street,  there  will 
be  a  chapel  contiguous  to  it  on  Fifth  Avenue,  to  be  known  as  "Beth-El 
Chapel,"  and  a  community  house  contiguous  to  the  Temple  on  Sixty- 
fifth  Street  to  house  the  religious  school  and  other  Temple  activities. 

Chronicles  of  Temple  'Beth- SI 

TEMPLE  BETH-EL  was  organized  on  March  27,  1874.    Its  first 
rabbi  was  Dr.  David  Einhorn.    Temple  Beth-El  was  an  amalga- 
mation of  two  Congregations,  Anshe  Chesed  and  Adas  Jeshurun. 

The  first  of  these  was  formed  in  1828,  in  a  small  room  in  White 
Street.  In  1835,  Anshe  Chesed  moved  to  Cireen  Street.  In  1840, 
they  built  a  synagogue  in  Henry  Street.  In  1850,  they  erected  a  beau- 
tiful synagogue  in  Norfolk  Street,  which  became  known  as  the  "Norfolk 
Street  Shule."  In  1871,  they  moved  to  Sixty-third  Street  and  Lexington 
Avenue.  Originally  strictly  Orthodox,  it  developed  into  a  Reform 
congregation. 


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Adas  Jeshurun  was  formed  in  1866  and  was  a  Reform  congregation  from  its  inception.  It  worshipped  first 
in  Everett  Hall;  then  in  its  own  building,  w^hich  was  dedicated  on  August  31,  1866,  in  West  Thirty-ninth 
Street.  Dr.  David  Einhorn  was  its  rabbi.  Under  his  leadership,  his  Congregation  and  Anshe  Chesed  merged 
and  formed  Congregation  Beth-El. 

Dr.  Einhorn  continued  as  rabbi  until  1879.  He  was  succeeded  by  his  son-in-law,  Dr.  Kaufman  Kohler, 
who  was  called  to  the  Beth-El  pulpit  from  Sinai  Congregation,  Chicago. 

On  September  18,  1891,  Congregation  Beth-El  moved  to  its  new  edifice  on  Fifth  Avenue  and  Seventy-sixth 
Street. 

Dr.  Rudolph  Grossman  was  appointed  as  assistant  rabbi  to  Dr.  Kohler  and  ministered  at  Beth-El  from  1889 
to  1897. 

On  November  13,  1898,  Dr.  Samuel  Schulman,  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  was  elected  associate  rabbi  and 
was  inducted  into  office  on  January  6,  1899.  In  1903,  he  was  elected  rabbi  of  the  Congregation.  From  1920  to 
1923,  Rabbi  Marius  Ranson  and  Rabbi  Milton  Ellis  officiated  as  assistant  rabbis.  Rabbi  Simon  Cohen  was  elected 
assistant  rabbi  on  April  19,  1925,  and  on  September  12,  1925,  preached  his  inaugural  sermon. 

On  May  11,  1927,  a  special  meeting  was  held  at  Temple  Beth-El,  at  which  meeting  the  resolution  that 
Temple  Emanu-El  and  Temple  Beth-El  be  amalgamated  was  adopted.  Mr.  Benjamin  Altheimer  was  president 
of  the  Congregation  at  the  time  of  the  amalgamation. 

The  <^rchitects*  Description 

THE  new  Temple  Emanu-El,  upon  its  completion,  will  be  the  third  largest  religious  structure  in  New  York 
City,  and  will  have  been  constructed  at  a  cost  of  about  $3,000,000.    The  old  residences  on  the  new  site  were 
torn  down  and  excavation  for  the  new  Temple  was  started  the  last  week  in  January. 

The  land  is  an  L-shaped  plot,  fronting  150  feet  on  Fifth  Avenue  and  253  feet  on  Sixty-fifth  Street.  The 
Congregation  also  owns  the  house  immediately  to  the  east  of  this  site,  22  feet  wide,  thus  protecting  its  light  on  that 
side  and  providing  for  a  possible  future  extension  of  the  Community  House.  The  general  scheme,  as  displayed  by 
the  illustrations,  places  the  Temple,  a  long,  rectangular-shaped  building,  at  the  corner,  with  the  Chapel  flanking  it 
on  the  Fifth  Avenue  side,  to  the  north,  and  the  Community  House  at  the  easterly  end  of  the  L,  on  Sixty-fifth  Street. 

The  general  manner  of  treatment  of  the  group  is  an  adaptation  of  very  early  Romanesque  as  it  was  used  in 
Syria  and  the  East,  and  found  occasionally  in  Sicily,  influenced  by  the  Eastern  and  Arab  invasions.  The  forms 
of  the  Chapel  show  distinctly  Byzantine  influences.  But  in  the  design  of  both  Temple  and  Chapel,  almost  as 
frankly  as  in  the  Community  House,  it  is  recognized  that  any  historic  style,  if  used  as  an  inspiration  today,  can 
furnish,  as  it  were,  only  the  characters  of  an  alphabet.  American  religious  life  must  express  itself  anew  to  meet 
the  changed  forms  of  its  service,  just  as  our  secular  life,  though  using  the  old  characters,  has  found  architectural 
forms  that  tend  towards  a  new  and  distinctly  American  expression. 


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As  a  matter  of  fact,  from  a  construction  point  of  view,  the  forms  adopted  in  this  design  also  have  a  functional 
purpose,  aside  from  their  esthetic  value.  The  walls  are  actually  self-supporting,  the  buttresses  of  the  exterior  and 
the  trusses  of  the  interior  are,  respectively,  the  stone  and  concrete  coverings  of  structural  steel  members  necessary 
to  bridge  so  wide  a  span. 

The  exterior  walls  of  the  Temple,  Chapel  and  Community  House  will  be  in  a  warm-toned,  variegated  stone. 
The  most  noticeable  feature  of  this  group  of  buildings  will  be  the  great  recessed  arch  on  Fifth  Avenue,  with  its 
rose  window  set  within  the  pedimented  portico.  This,  with  its  flanking  staircase  towers,  backs  up  against  the  main 
east  wall,  the  front  wall  of  the  great  rectangular  hall  which  forms  the  main  body  of  the  Temple. 

This  large  arch  of  the  front  expresses  on  the  outside  what  is  the  main  feature  of  the  interior  of  the  Temple. 
It  is  duplicated  over  the  west  gallery  by  a  similar  arch,  and  an  arch  of  approximately  the  same  dimensions  repeats 
the  architectural  note  at  the  east  end  over  the  Ark.  There  is  thus  established  in  the  main  Temple  a  unity  of 
expression,  whereby  the  interior  and  exterior  of  the  structure  indicate  clearly  both  the  general  form  of  the  main 
mass  and  the  distinctive  feature  which  marks  each  part  of  it.  We  may  see  in  this  unity  a  distinctive  and 
appropriate  piece  of  religious  symbolism,  quite  aside  from  its  artistic  advantage. 

The  main  dimensions  of  the  Temple  proper  are  77  feet  wide  between  the  inside  of  the  piers  and  147  feet  6 
inches  from  the  east  side  of  the  vestibule  to  the  front  of  the  Ark  platform,  with  a  height  of  103  feet  from  the 


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floor  to  the  under  side  of  the  ceiling  at  its  highest  point.  The  main  floor  of  the  Temple  will  seat  2,044  people, 
the  west  balcony  214  and  the  narrow  side  balconies  230,  or  a  total  of  about  2,500.  From  all  the  pews  within  this 
long,  rectangular  hall  there  will  be  a  view  of  the  Pulpits  and  Ark  entirely  unobstructed  by  piers  or  columns,  the 
deep  recesses  of  the  two  sides  being  merely  wide  enough  to  contain  side  aisles  leading  to  the  exits. 

The  color  treatment  of  the  walls,  windows  and  ceiling  trusses  will  be  rich  and  varied,  the  predominating 
scheme  being  of  deep  russet  browns,  light  below  and  dark  above.  This  scheme  will  be  accentuated  by  the  light- 
ing from  concealed  sources. 

On  the  Ark  recess  itself,  however,  will  be  focused  the  main  decorative  treatment  of  the  interior.  Here  the 
columns  and  dome  of  the  Ark  will  be  of  vari-colored  marbles  and  mosaic  inlays.  Above  and  back  of  the  Ark  and 
on  the  side  walls  will  be  visible  the  richly  decorated  grill  work  of  the  choir  loft  and  organ.  Only  those  pierced 
panels,  arches  and  vaults  will  indicate  the  important  features  of  organ  and  choir.  The  major  part  of  the  organ 
will  be  located  at  this  east  end  above  the  choir  loft,  which  is  located  back  (cast)  of  the  rear  wall  of  the  Temple 
and  twenty-six  feet  above  the  level  of  the  platform.  The  echo  organ,  only,  will  be  at  the  west  c.id  of  the  build- 
mg  above  the  west  balcony. 

The  Chapel,  located  on  Fifth  Avenue,  immediately  north  of  the  main  Temple,  purposely  has  been  kept  low, 
rising,  about  200  feet  east  of  the  avenue,  to  a  tower  which  separates  the  Temple  from  the  Community  House. 
Also,  it  has  been  set  back  from  the  street,  so  as  to  afford  a  spot  of  green  garden  to  set  of?  its  surroundings.  The 
Chapel  is  50  feet  wide,  84  feet  deep  and  45  feet  high,  and  will  seat  about  350  people.  The  scheme  of  its  interior 
arrangement  is  that  of  two  pendentive  domes  supported  on  columns,  somewhat  after  the  manner  of  certain  early 
Byzantine  structures. 

Arrangements  have  been  made  to  transfer  to  the  Chapel  the  May  memorial  windows  and  the  lamps  and  Ark 
doors  donated  by  Mr.  Jacob  H.  Schiff  and  now  in  rhe  present  Temple. 

The  Community  House  on  Sixty-fifth  Street  will  be  approximately  48  feet  wide  by  100  feet  deep.  The  steel 
for  this  has  been  designed  so  as  to  carry  any  future  extension  to  the  east  and  two  stories  additional  in  height,  when 
needed.  An  assembly  room  on  the  main  floor  of  the  Community  House  will  seat  750  people.  Above  that  are  suit- 
able offices,  choir  rooms,  a  music  library,  a  general  library  for  25,000  volumes,  a  study  and  secretary's  room  for 
each  of  the  Rabbis,  a  room  for  the  Trustees,  offices  and  a  library  for  the  Hebrew  Union  College,  and  twenty-eight 
classrooms  for  the  use  of  the  Sunday  school,  besides  minor  assembly  rooms  for  100  and  175  pupils,  respectively. 
Just  over  the  principal  entrance  to  the  Community  House,  offices,  school  and  assembly  rooms  is  the  Tower,  which 
is  180  feet  high.  This  contains  vestibules,  elevators  and  stairs  giving  access  to  the  various  floors  of  the  Community 
House. 

Below  the  main  Temple  itself,  there  is  a  banquet  room  with  all  necessary  service  rooms,  kitchen,  etc.  It  will 
accommodate  650  people  at  small  tables,  or  between  750  and  1,000  at  other  functions.  It  is  also  provided  with 
a  platform,  dressing  rooms  and  other  conveniences  for  entertainments. 

In  view  of  the  arrangement  of  "loud  speakers"  to  be  provided,  services  during  the  holy  days  will  be  audible 
to  nearly  4,500  people  in  the  main  halls  of  this  new  Temple ;  2,500  in  the  Temple  proper,  350  in  the  Chapel,  750 
in  the  Assembly  Room  and  almost  1,000  in  the  Banquet  Hall. 


TEMPLE  EMANU  EL  FORMERLY  AT  CORNER  OF  FIFTH  AVENUE  AND  FORTY-THIRD  STREET 


TEMPLE  BETH'EL  SITUATED  AT  CORNER  OF  SEVENTY- SIXTH  STREET  AND  FIFTH  AVENUE 
NOW  OCCUPIED  BY  CONGREGATION  EMANU-EL 


BRONZE  ENTRANCE  DOOR  TO  TEMPLE 


i^emorials  and  Qifts 

The  purpose  of  this  bock  is  to  afiord  .  every  one  an 
early  opportunity  to  appreciate  the  magnitude  and  beauty 
of  the  hew  Temple,  Chapel  and  Community  House,  for 
it  seems  eminently  desirable  that  you  should  have  set 
before  you,  as  a  hope  and  a  promise,  a  prospectus  of  the 
increased  and  improved  facilities  which  will  be  available 
when  these  structures  are  completed. 

Elements  or  individual  features  of  these  structures, 
which  some  may  wish  to  have  erected  or  provided  as  a 
testimonial  to  their  zeal,  or  as  an  enduring  memorial  to 
some  dear  one,  will  serve  as  proud  monuments  whose 
beauty  or  utility  generations  may  enjoy. 

No  more  fitting  tribute  to  the  cause  we  all  love  can 
be  imagined  than  to  embody  in  worked  stone,  carved  wood, 
stained  glass,  or  other  material  form  (as  an  integral  part 
of  these  magnificent  new  buildings)  one's  desire  to  have 
a  part  in  this  great  work,  nor  can  one  conceive  a  more 
enduring  or  beautiful  memorial  to  the  memory  of  some 
dear  one,  than  the  gift  to  the  Temple  of  some  part  of 
these  great  edifices. 

The  Trustees  of  the  Temple,  therefore,  offer  for  the 
consideration  of  those  who  may  be  thinking  of  making  a 
gift  to  the  Temple,  the  list  below  of  such  parts  of  the 
Temple,  Chapel  or  Community  House  for  which  contri- 
butions may  be  made  for  the  above  purposes: 


Temple  Emanu-El 

Fifth  Avenue  rose  window  complete,  including  exterior  stone 

and  stained  glass   $75,000 

Fifth  Avenue  rose  window,  glass  only   25,000 

Four  stained  glass  windows  under  rose  window   5,000 

Fifth  Avenue  high  arcade  windows  over  rose  window  (7),  each  3,000 

Fifth  Avenue  bronze  entrance  doors  (3)  .    .     .     -     .     .     .     .  30,000 
Ten  complete  nave  bays,  each  including  gallery  fronts  and  sup- 
porting columns,  one  large  stained  glass  window,  four  small 

clerestory  windows  above  and  two  small  aisle  windows,  each  60,000 

Ten  gallery  fronts  and  supporting  columns,  each   8,000 

Ten  large  stained  glass  windows  in  nave  bays,  each    ....  5,000 

Forty  small  stained  glass  clerestory  windows  in  bays,  each  1,000 
Entire  sanctuary,   including  choir   and   organ   screens,  marble 

wainscot,  marble  floor,  ark,  bronze  doors  to  ark   200,000 

Choir  and  organ  screen  included  in  above   50,000 

Marble  wainscot  in  sanctuary   20,000 

Marble  floor  of  sanctuary   20,000 

Ark,  including  bronze  doors   50,000 

Two  pulpits  and  canopies,  each   15,000 

Recess  and  arch  over  west  gallery   50,000 

Marble  floor  in  vestibule   15,000 

West  gallery  front   15,000 

Seven  branched  candlesticks,  each   10,000 

Organ   75,000 

Beth-El  Chapel 

Entrance  bronze  doors   10,000 

Mosaic  domes  (2),  each   25,000 

Six  granite  columns,  each   5,000 

Ten  marble  columns,  each   2,500 

Choir  and  organ  screen   5,000 

Four  side  walls,  with  small  stained  glass  windows,  each         .     .  3,500 

Ark,  exclusive  of  bronze  doors   5,000 

Marble  floor   20,000 

Community  House 

Tower   100,000 

Library,  including  furnishings   25,000 

Trustees'  room,  including  furnishings   20,000 

Three  Rabbis'  rooms,  including  furnishings,  each   10,000 


MANTEL  IN  TRUSTEES'  ROOM  OF  COMMUNITY  HOUSE 


FIFTH.  AVENUE 


Prepared  by  Sherman  £r  Lebair.  Inc. 
New  York 


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